entropicdrift
@entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org
- Comment on Manic Stew 3 days ago:
Hyperfocus cookies
- Comment on Nobody has ever lit a cigarette because of happiness. Smoking is a anxiety-coping mechanism. 3 days ago:
Cigars are often for celebrations, are they not?
- Comment on Tesla reintroduces 'Mad Max' Full Self-Driving mode that breaks speed limits 5 days ago:
I highly doubt it’ll go smoothly. IMO what will happen is driving standards will rise, driving tests will become extremely tough and need to be repeated every few years, and self driving tech will get cheaper and most people will just summon cars like Waymo rather than bothering to remain liscensed. There will have to be an offramp, not a firm cutoff.
- Comment on [Episode] Gnosia - Episode 1 discussion 5 days ago:
There’s also the fact that the people can be un-frozen, so why not freeze and unfreeze people one at a time as you discover whether they’re Gnosia? That way the humans will be the majority the whole time.
- Comment on America is ‘going broke slowly’ says J.P. Morgan, as national debt balloons and tariff revenue looks shaky 1 week ago:
And planets
- Comment on Ferns 1 week ago:
Still too much pain relief. You see, if you simply torture women enough, all their children either come out perfectly or die for … reasons…
- Comment on Must my Jellyfin server be able to AV1 videos? 2 weeks ago:
It helps if your server can decode AV1, but you never need it to encode to AV1. Basically the main usecase for transcoding AV1 would be burning in ASS formatted subtitles, commonly used for anime. If you keep your anime in other codecs then you shouldn’t need to transcode AV1 ever unless you add more clients into the mix that can’t handle AV1 natively.
For what it’s worth, I use an Intel N100 with quicksync, and that can decode AV1 because it’s 12th gen. Works great for me.
- Comment on GOG: We’re thrilled to announce that the Crysis Remastered Trilogy has joined our catalog, and the original Crysis is now part of the GOG Preservation Program! 2 weeks ago:
The DLP shutter glasses are wireless, for what it’s worth. The projector inserts solid red frames to for the glasses to sync to.
- Comment on GOG: We’re thrilled to announce that the Crysis Remastered Trilogy has joined our catalog, and the original Crysis is now part of the GOG Preservation Program! 2 weeks ago:
Yeah. Generally for 3D you’ll want a DLP projector, plus active shutter glasses. They still make the glasses, you can pick them up on Amazon. They go for about $20 per pair.
- Comment on GOG: We’re thrilled to announce that the Crysis Remastered Trilogy has joined our catalog, and the original Crysis is now part of the GOG Preservation Program! 2 weeks ago:
You’re correct. Projectors still mostly support 3D, so if you’re into 3D that’s the best way to watch stuff or game in 3D nowadays, outside of VR headsets, of course.
- Comment on Reducing buffering when accessing Jellyfin via Tailscale 3 weeks ago:
Yes, hardware transcoding = using hardware acceleration for decoding/re-encoding the video files. CPUs do it pretty slowly but the special decoder/encoder chips on GPUs (including integrated graphics GPUs) can handle that sort of task no sweat in most cases as long as you’ve got it preperly configured.
- Comment on YSK When you hover over a piece of the phonetic notation on (English) Wikipedia, it shows you an example for its pronunciation 3 weeks ago:
Okay, so like a GIF Wrangler
- Comment on Zuckerberg hailed AI ‘superintelligence’. Then his smart glasses failed on stage | Matthew Cantor 3 weeks ago:
Same, yeah. My company even turned on Cursor BugBot to review our PRs and it calls out nonsense non-problems all the time due to lacking context
- Comment on Zuckerberg hailed AI ‘superintelligence’. Then his smart glasses failed on stage | Matthew Cantor 3 weeks ago:
I hate when people do that. The robot is wrong! All the freaking time.
- Comment on Trump says TikTok should be tweaked to become “100% MAGA” 3 weeks ago:
He said Christians won’t have to worry about voting again.
Still fucking ominous, but for slightly different reasons.
- Comment on PUT THE TRAINS IN THE BAG 4 weeks ago:
Why sort in the train when you can sort ahead of time and maximize storage space? The ZIP code system allows for a national radix sort.
- Comment on A natural leader is someone who is seen by others as a leader. It is not the same thing as a good leader. 4 weeks ago:
Bad can mean evil or it can mean incompetent. People don’t love incompetent leaders, but they do love evil ones. If a leader isn’t evil but they are seen as incompetent, people often hate them.
- Comment on If sexuality is a spectrum, does that mean one person is the gayest? 4 weeks ago:
Much like IQ, once you’re more than 2 standard deviations from the mean, there’s no statistically meaningful way to measure additional queerness.
- Comment on A natural leader is someone who is seen by others as a leader. It is not the same thing as a good leader. 4 weeks ago:
People don’t love bad leaders, they love abusive leaders. Like the more pain they suffer for a leader, the more they need to love that leader for their suffering to make sense to themselves. Abusive leaders exploit that loophole of human psychology. It’s why cults form all the time and why people in cults are often forced to go door to door just to face the rejection that non-cultists give them. The rejection feom outsiders makes them cling to the cult harder.
- Comment on Why do some gamers invert their controls? Scientists now have answers, but they’re not what you think 4 weeks ago:
I learned what a joystick was from my grandpa who used it exclusively to play WWI and WWII flight simulators. Almost all of my use of a joystick before the age of 5 was on one of those games.
Today I am equally comfortable with joysticks set either way. Guess it’s just a personal preference?
- Comment on "Veni Vidi Veni" would be a great name for a strip club or brothel. 4 weeks ago:
Nah, Trojans only hang out at Greasey places
- Comment on Spotify will now let free users pick and play tracks | TechCrunch 5 weeks ago:
Sure, that’s true, though if you allow streams on Bandcamp, those pay $0, so in terms of “try before you buy”, any streaming service is better. It’s only if you actually sell an album on band camp (or AmpWall, a smaller indie service that does a lot of the same stuff) that you’d get paid, as an artist.
- Comment on Spotify will now let free users pick and play tracks | TechCrunch 5 weeks ago:
Tidal pays more than 3x what Spotify pays. Qobuz pays like 5-6x.
- Comment on Beyond the Maze: The Unexpected Store Management Game in Pacman 30th Anniversary 5 weeks ago:
This reads like ChatGPT wrote it
- Comment on Default Settings Are Eating The World 1 month ago:
… OK? Is the implication that you make informed decisions despite that, or are you just volunteering info?
- Comment on Default Settings Are Eating The World 1 month ago:
Some people are just raised to make informed choices, y’know. Doesn’t mean they’ve got a diagnosable condition, they just aren’t part of the “default settings” tribe.
Like you know allistic nerds exist, right?
- Comment on Many of the younger generations of folks don't know what it's like to watch TV series out of order by virtue of channel surfing on live TV and grabbing random episodes here and there 1 month ago:
I dunno, it won a bunch of awards
- Comment on Many of the younger generations of folks don't know what it's like to watch TV series out of order by virtue of channel surfing on live TV and grabbing random episodes here and there 1 month ago:
It’s a mildly interactive art piece with an overarching plot if you care to dig, and mindless entertainment if not.
- Comment on Many of the younger generations of folks don't know what it's like to watch TV series out of order by virtue of channel surfing on live TV and grabbing random episodes here and there 1 month ago:
You can use it with Jellyfin too, though live TV support varies by the client you use
- Comment on Foolproof advice 1 month ago:
Pretty sure it’s a joke.